Yesterday’s Storyboard post was on ”Finding Dolly Freed,” an innovative approach to narrative journalism. For that story, we shared comments on the project from Tanja Aitamurto, a researcher at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, who did a case study on Spot.Us and has a particular interest in crowdfunded journalism. She had additional interesting thoughts on the future of long-form reporting in the digital era, and [...]
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Hello, Dolly! Radiohead journalism and the future of narrative
January 14, 2010 – 4:32 pm
When a journalist in love with a story gets turned down by magazine after magazine then sells a piece only to see it killed, what’s the next step? If you’re Paige Williams, you take a page from the guerrilla journalism handbook and publish it yourself.
Williams, whose “Finding Dolly Freed” debuted last week, installed a donation [...]
